Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c8.s10.t2: Nature of microliths
Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c8.s10.t2
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Nature of microliths
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It also appears that as in Maharashtra, Mysore and Central India we can classify the microliths into (a) true microliths of Mesolithic type and period and (b) Short parallel-sided blades etc. To the former belong microliths which SUBBARAO found in his excavations at Sangankallu in Phase I and those discovered by SOUNDARA RAJAN at Nagarjunakonda in Guntur District, by ISAAC and CAMMIADE in Kurnool and elsewhere, for instance, near Pondicherry⁵¹ in the red soil away from the sea coast. Of course, with more systematic work, further clarification will follow.
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⁵¹ See, ZEUNER, F. E. and ALLCHIN, BRIDGET in *A.I.*, No. 12, 1958, pp. 4-20. The writer got a few microliths from the late Prof. JOUVEAU-DUBREUIL as far as back 1940. And his examination later of the *teris* makes him feel that it is like the Teri area.
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Thus at present it is difficult to say how these microliths, though mostly from the surface, are related to those from the *teris* of South India. For the present we have a classification of CAMMIADE’S vast collection⁵² into geometric and non-geometric microliths, though as yet a well-defined stratigraphical correlation alludes us. The industry comprises parallel-sided blades, lunates, triangles, trapezes, scrapers, backed blades and burins.
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⁵² CAMMIADE and BURKITT, op. cit., p. 338.